1. Europeana:
Partage Plus &
Europeana Inside
19/11/2012, SSL Index+ User Group Meeting
Carolien Fokke
Katie Smith

2. What is Europeana?
• An internet portal that acts as an interface to
millions of books, paintings, films, museum
objects and archival records that have been
digitised throughout Europe
• A platform for knowledge exchange that
promotes collaboration between librarians,
curators, archivists and the creative industries
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3. www.europeana.eu
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4. Why contribute?
• Enriches your users' experience
• Integrated data
• Exposes your metadata to search engines
• Drives traffic to your site
• Reuse and enrichment
• Knowledge transfer
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5. EUROPEANA INSIDE
An Introduction
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6. Europeana Inside
• Best Practice Network
• 26 participants
• 10 countries
• 30 months (1 April 2012 – 30 September
2014)
• 960,000 records added to Europeana
• Website: www.europeana-inside.eu
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7. Mission
• To support the Digital Agenda for Europe by
achieving a lasting transformation in the
quantity, scope and usability of the content
available to Europeana from European cultural
institutions.
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8. Objectives I
• To open up new digital cultural content for
Europeana
• To simplify significantly the process of
contributing content to Europeana
• To help overcome participation barriers by
part-automating the workflow and creating
tools for the management of permissions and
licensing
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9. Objectives II
• To ensure that current and future generations
of Collections and Digital Asset Management
Software are ‘Europeana-ready’
• To support metadata enrichment in Content
Provider systems
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10. Participants
•Collections Trust, UK • Interdisciplinary Institute For Broadband
• Knowledge Integration Ltd, UK Technology, BE
• Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, GE • Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, HU
• Zetcom Informatikdienstleistungen, GE • Stichting Europeana, NL
• Postscriptum, GR • Adlib Information Systems BV, NL
• Stichting Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland, NL •StiftelsenLansmuseetVasternorrlandSlv, SW
• System Simulation Limited, UK •MonguzInformációtechnológiaiKft, HU
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE •Semantika, SL
• Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, HU •Institut Royal Des Sciences Naturelles De
• KE Software Ltd, UK Belgique, BE
• Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, •Skinsoft, FR
BE •Benaki Museum, GR
• Petofi Irodalmi Muzeum, HU •Xantys Limited, UK
• National Gallery-alexandros Soutzos •Municipio Do Seixal, PT
Museum, GR
• Mobydoc Sas FR
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11. Countries
• United Kingdom • Slovenia
• The Netherlands • Hungary
• Belgium • France
• Greece • Sweden
• Germany • Portugal
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12. Europeana Connection Kit
• A set of open-source software tools
• Connects CMS to an aggregator
• Simple and easy to use
• Lowers participation barriers
• Supports metadata enrichment
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14. Timeline
April 2013: ECK
1st Prototype
September 2013: ECK
2nd Prototype
available
April 2014: ECK
Production version
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15. Impact
• Far-reaching and transformative
• Open up potential for more than 7000 other
cultural institutions to deliver content to
Europeana
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16. Vision
• The Europeana Inside outputs, and
particularly the Europeana Connection Kit, will
be adopted byevery Collections Management
software supplier and their museum, library
and archive clients throughout Europe to
transform the quantity, scope and accessibility
of digital cultural heritage for the public.
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17. Join Us
www.twitter.com/EuropeanaInside
www.facebook.com/EuropeanaInside
Subscribe to our Newsletter:
www.europeana-inside.eu/newsletter
Become an Associate Partner:
www.europeana-inside.eu/partners/
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18. Further Information
• Website: www.europeana-inside.eu
• CarolienFokke:
carolien@collectionstrust.org.uk
• Gordon McKenna:
gordon@collectionstrust.org.uk
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19. An Introduction...
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20. • The Information Communication
Technologies Policy Support
Programme (ICT PSP) is a European
subsidy programme that is part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation
Programme (CIP) established by the
European Commission in October
2006.
• The ICT Policy Support Programme will
run from 2007 to 2013 with a budget
of €730 million.
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21. About Partage Plus...
•24 Months, started in March 2012;
• Digitising 75,000+ Art Nouveau objects;
• 2,000 3D renditions;
• 23 partners from 17 European countries;
• Includes paintings, drawings, furniture,
sculpture, ceramics and architecture;
• Demonstrates how collections from different
domains and countries can be accessed
through Europeana.
• Increase the access to Art Nouveau content
through Europeana, Europe’s digital cultural
heritage portal.
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22. Art Nouveau
• End of 19thstart of 20thCentury;
• Name means ‘new art’, also known asJugendstil
• Philosophy that art should be a way of life;
• Inspired by natural forms and structures;
• Alphonse Mucha’s ‘Gismonda’ 1895;
•Things to associate with Art Nouveau:
• Decadence;
• Glamour;
• Beauty;
•Nature.
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23. Why Art Nouveau?
• Resurgence in popularity;
• Very well represented in almost every
art form;
• Key art movement within Europe;
• Europeanais lacking - only about 5,000
‘Art Nouveau’ records;
• PartagePlus aims to demonstrate the
wealth of the Art Nouveau collections
within Europe!
• Project will highlight these collections
and their ‘Masterpieces’.
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24. Why Art Nouveau?
‘Partage Plus will create an access point to information
(through the project website) and digital content
(through Europeana) on the European cultural heritage
of the Art Nouveau period. It provides a means and a
structure for the digitisation of content from different
domains and different countries and making it available
for citizens using Europeana.’
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25. Masterpieces...
•Partage Plus will feature ‘Masterpieces’ by:
• Victor Horta;
• Henri van de Velde;
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh;
• Alphonse Mucha;
• Hector Guimard;
• Emile Gallé;
• René Lalique;
• Paul Hankar;
• Josef Maria Olbrich;
• Wilhelm Jost;
• Charles Tiffany
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26. Project Partners
•Collections Trust, UK •Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle
•Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni
Kunst Mak/Gegenwartskunst, AT bibliografiche, IT
•Stad Gent, BE •Stichting Drents Museum, NL
•Koninklijk Instituut voor het •Stiftelsen Kulturkvartalet, NO
Kunstpatrimonium, BE •Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, PL
•Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en •Muzeum Wojciecha Weissa Fundacja, PL
Geschiedenis, BE •Camara Municipal de Aveiro, PT
•Muzej za umjetnost i obrt, HR •Urbanisticni Institut Republike Slovenije, SI
•Umeleckoprumyslove Museum v Praze, CZ •Museu Nacional d'art de Catalunya, ES
•National Board of Antiquities, FI •GoteborgsKommun, SE
•Philipps Universitaet Marburg, GE •Rörstrand Museum, SE
•Steinbichler Optotechnik GmbH, GE •University of East Anglia (Sainsbury Centre for
•National Technical University of Athens, GR Visual Arts), UK
•Iparművészeti Múzeum, HU
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27. Target Users...
The target user groups for Art Nouveau-related digital material, and their needs, are:
• Curators of Art Nouveau;
• Communities interested in Art Nouveau in their area;
• Private sector including: collectors, dealers, and relevant publishers;
• Education sector;
• Media;
• Academic researchers.
The Partage Plus website will act as the hub for meeting our users needs and provide users
with the opportunity to:
• Gather information about the Art Nouveau style;
• Experience Art Nouveau works online through Europeana;
• Visit institutions with Art Nouveau collections;
• Take part in Partage Plus-related events.
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28. 3D Scanning...sounds easy?
Use:
•3D printing
•3D manufacturing
•Scanning before and after transport
•Improve packaging/casings
•3D renderings for marketing
•Virtual museum
Things to remember:
•Glass objects
•Keep them dusty!
•Avoid highly reflective surfaces
•Think about object size!
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29. The story so far...
• Kick off meeting in March – Budapest;
• Produced materials for digitisation: specific
guidelines, terminologies;
• Social Media;
•Website;
• 1 museum has completed 3D scanning;
• Submitting metadata from Collection
Management Systems to ingestion tool;
• Events and press releases;
• First delivery to Europeana due in January
2013;
• Next project meeting – Rome, March 2013.
Do you have Art Nouveau collections?
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30. Further Information:
Join Us: Contact Us:
www.partage-plus.eu Katie Smith:
katies@collectionstrust.org.uk
www.facebook.com/partageplus
Gordon McKenna:
@Partage_Plus
gordon@collectionstrust.orh.uk
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